Wise Poets of the Present
A Farewell from Wise Poet Shirley Mandel Satterfield
The Hebrew scriptures teach that there is a season for everything and a new season is dawning in my life, retirement. I have a milestone birthday coming up and I…
How Wise Reader’s Interpret Poetry
How Wise Reader’s Interpret Poetry We are moving a bit from the biographies of great poets and authors to the interpretation of their works, although the stories of today’s great…
Hopes and Dreams: The Pulitzer Prize Guidelines
It always helps an author in his or her quest to market books to earn credentials and win accolades since reputation and creditability for a writer is important And the…
Characterization in Wise Books
There are two main factors in the making of a good book; plot (which has already been dealt with in this column) and characterization. Characterization can be defined as the…
Basic Plot Development for Wise Writers
We all love our stories; don’t we? But each story, whether it be in a novel, an epic poem, a play or a film, has one thing in common and…
Bulgaria’s Alexandar Tomov Jr.: He Writes About All Things Absurd
Bulgaria’s Alexandar Tomov Jr.: He Writes About All Things Absurd Alexandar Tomov Jr. was born in Sofia, Bulgaria on June 3. 1982 in the shadow of the Soviet Empire. And,…
Poetic Imagery: Little Snapshots in the Mind
Poetic Imagery: Little Snapshots in the Mind As we have seen before in modern and post-modern poetry, the sky’s the limit when it comes to the style of poetry you…
Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman: From Watts to Front and Center
Inaugural Poet Amanda Gorman: From Watts to Front and Center Amanda is a young poet who was first to do a lot of things. Born in Los Angeles, California, and…
Neil David Chan: Canada’s Own Post-Modern Metaphysical Philosopher
Neil David Chan: Canada’s Own Post-Modern Metaphysical Philosopher In this article author, poet and philosopher Neil David Chan answers three important interview questions to define his beliefs concerning hid doctrine…
We Got Rhythm: The Beat of the Bard
We Got Rhythm: The Beat of the Bard Good poetry being a close kin to music not only depends on the sounds of words to make it musical, but it…
Rhyme Schemes for Wise Poets
The English language lends itself so well to rhyme that rhyme is common in English poetry, except for blank verse which has meter and no rhyme and free verse poetry….
Poet Laureate Georgette LeBlanc: Canada’s Choice Bard
Poet Laureate Georgette LeBlanc: Canada’s Choice Bard The honor of being named Poet Laureate of Canada is a fairly new post created by the Canadian Parliament. It was created in…
A Now Poetic Voice of the Covid 19 Age
A Now Poetic Voice of the Covid 19 Age They say history repeats itself, and in 1918, we had a worldwide flu epidemic like the world had never seen before….
Cathy Mellen Our Fall 2020 Contest Winner
Cathy Mellen Our Fall 2020 Contest Winner I am very pleased to announce that our dailywisdomwords.com Fall poetry contest winner is poet and blogger Cathy Mellen. Congrats Cathy! 1. Where…
Jericho Brown and His Long Path to Recognition
While not all great poets don’t chose big education as their chosen path to success, Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jericho Brown chose that challenging path for himself. Writer Malcolm Gladwell,…
Spielberg’s ‘Poltergeist’ the Great American Ghost Story: Halloween Month Horror Series Part IV
Spielberg’s ‘Poltergeist’ the Great American Ghost Story: Halloween Month Horror Series Part IV Now, you know you’ve got problems when a hostile ghost uses the family TV as a medium…
J.K. Rowling and Her ‘Otherworldly’ Success: Halloween Horror Month Part II
J.K. Rowling and Her ‘Otherworldly’ Success: Halloween Horror Month Part II Her marriage was over. She was jobless; on welfare. And she was so broke that she had to type…
Stephen King The Master of Dark Fiction: Halloween Horror Month Part I
Stephen Edwin King is the wildly popular horror fiction writer that started life working a regular jobs like the average American working stiff. But he has a twisted imagination and…
Wise Poets of the Past
Rudyard Kipling: The Empire’s Anglo-Indian Writer
Rudyard Kipling: The Empire’s Anglo-Indian Writer Indian born, British citizen Rudyard Kipling was an imperialist leaning writer which makes him controversial in our own post colonial times, but he was…
Rebirth and Resurrection in Western Literature
We are in the season of Easter when we turn our minds to the rebirth of Spring and the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. And both of these…
Mahatma Gandhi: The Wise-man from the East and His Writings
Mahatma Gandhi: The Wise-man from the East and His Writings Mohandas Karamchald Gandhi. born on October 2, 1869 in Guiarat, India was not only an anti-colonial activist and the liberator…
Ireland: Land of Mossy Mists and Ancient Myth
Ireland: Land of Mossy Mists and Ancient Myth Similar to Greece, Ireland is also a land of ancient myth and folklore. But the difference between myth and folklore is that…
Narrative Poetry Tells The Story
Narrative Poetry Tells The Story Aristotle divided poetry into three main categories: narrative, dramatic, such as we see in Shakespeare’s plays in which character development is the the thing rather…
Francis Pharcellus Church: Little Virginia’s Secret Journalism Santa
Francis Pharcellus Church: Little Virginia’s Secret Journalism Santa A child’s letter to the editor questioning the existence of Santa Claus challenged the imagination of a crusty old, cynical newspaper writer…
Kahlil Gibran: America’s Mystical Immigrant
Kahlil Gibran: America’s Mystical Immigrant Kahlil Gibran, born on January 6, 1883 in a Lebanese village in the exotic Ottoman Empire, is most famous for his best selling book, :”The…
Oscar Wilde: Flamboyance Personified
Oscar Wilde: Flamboyance Personified Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, born on October 16 in 1854, was not just famous for his long name and writings which were shocking in his…
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Modern Prose Poetry Bends the Rules
Modern Prose Poetry Bends the Rules There are definite difference between poetry and prose. Poetry is written in verse form and relies on picturesque speech, metaphor, imagery, can bend the…
Agatha Christie the Dame of Mystery: Halloween Horror Month Part III
Agatha Christie the Dame of Mystery: Halloween Horror Month Part III Ah, Agatha Christie, Her wildly popular murder mysteries have kept readers gleefully occupied on cold winter nights for decades….
e e cummings: The Experimental Poet
Today’s prevailing wisdom in literary circles is that language is fluid and the rules of grammar can be bent, as long as the skilled author intuitively knows it works. And…
Emma Lazarus Wants “Your Tired and Your Poor
The Iconic poem ‘The New Colossus” was one sonnet all American children had to read in school, at least those of us in the Baby Boom generation. And the words…
Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Radical English Poet of Social Change
Percy Bysshe Shelley was born on August 4, 1792 in Sussex, England to a well heeled noble family and enjoyed a pleasant rural childhood. And although his father Timothy Shelley…
Johnathan Edwards Preached the American House Down
Tucked deep in the annals of classic American literature you will find a recorded sermon entitled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” that literally brought the Thirteen Colonies…
H.I.E. Dhlomo: The Literary Luminary of South African Apartheid
HIE Dhlomo: The Literary Luminary of South African Apartheid South Africa is a land rich in history and literature which can boast of up to eleven official languages, including English….
Ralph Waldo Emerson: America’s Most Influential Essayist
Ralph Waldo Emerson: America’s Most Influential Essayist Emerson may have been an ordained minister and the son of an ordained minister, but he was anything but a Christian. He was…
Francis Scott Key: On The Fence in Freedom’s Defense
Francis Scott Key: On The Fence in Freedom’s Defense Some poets are famous for only one poem, and Francis Scott Key, a Fredrick, Maryland lawyer is the amateur poet who…
